Clinical Pharmacist at Old Court House Surgery Sutton

Posting date:	12 May 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Negotiable
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 June 2025
Location:	Sutton, SM1 4AF
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	A2700-25-0026

Summary

The post holder will be responsible for supporting the practices within Sutton Primary Care Networks to provide expert medicine management and optimisation, vaccinating and drawing up vaccines, whilst working within their area of clinical competence and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. They will be supported by a Senior Clinical Pharmacist and others who will develop, manage and mentor them. The role will be patient-facing and pharmacists will be involved in structured medication reviews, including poly-pharmacy reviews, managing chronic long term conditions and managing medications after transfer of care. They will also have access to appropriate clinical supervision. The post holder will provide support and deliver patient services as determined by the Network Policy as well as local and national guidance and as deemed appropriate by the practice for their current service needs. They will also provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, manage some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework and maximise cost-effective prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will usually be enrolled on to the 18-monthPrimary care pharmacy educationpathway with the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE). They will also be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held. Management of medicines post hospital discharge Reconcile medications following hospital discharge and outpatient clinics. Identify any discrepancies and unexplained medication changes and work with the patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medications they need post discharge. Ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients is maintained (e.g. those with compliance aids or those in care homes). Risk stratification Use pre-prepared emis searches to identify cohorts of patients who are on high risk medications (e.g. immunosuppressants, anticonvulsants etc). Recall patients who are overdue their routine monitoring tests and inform them to have these tests done as soon as possible. Unplanned hospital admissions Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups. Implement drug withdrawals and alerts Liaise with the GP surgeries to implement MHRA drug withdrawals and medication alerts to improve medicines safety. Implement local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations Monitor practice prescribing against local, national and formulary guidelines and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed only by the hospital or subject to shared care agreements. Work with GPs and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing. Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answer relevant medicine-related queries from GPs, other network staff, healthcare teams (e.g. Community pharmacy) and patients Suggest and recommend solutions and/or possible alternatives e.g. around out of stock medications. Signposting Ensure patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional if you are not the correct person to deal with their query/condition. Medicines quality improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team. Education and Training Provide education and training to the broader primary healthcare team on medicines optimisation. Care Quality Commission Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Public Health Support public health campaigns and provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public. Other Responsibilities: Participate in PCN MDT where appropriate. Liaise with CCG colleagues including CCG pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and to benefit from peer support. Maintain strong links with all services across the PCN and neighbouring networks. Explore the potential for collaborative working and take opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships. Liaise with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients, including but not limited to; Patients and their representatives GP, nurses and other practice staff Social prescribers, first contact physiotherapists, physicians associates and paramedics. Community pharmacists and support staff Other members of the medicines management (MM) team including pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Dietitians GP prescribing leads PCN Clinical Directors and other PCN staff Practice managers Community nurses and other allied health professionals Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation